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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 119–132.
Published: 01 August 2012
... conflicts that finally erupt in the revolution of 1989, the article foregrounds three modes of cultural representation that produce three versions of cultural history. The first, symbolic mode epitomizes the protagonists' conventional understanding of culture as an archive of knowledge and learning...
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Between Israel and Germany: Therapeutic Return to the Place of Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 179–197.
Published: 01 November 2014
... for the analysis of three films and informs the investigation of the wider cultural and historical contexts of the return. Two of the films bring their protagonists to Germany to face the descendants of the perpetrators. The encounter with Germany and German characters initiates an emotional process that may...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 97–113.
Published: 01 August 2015
... sensibilities of a set of protagonists who no longer care whether they are in step with their time. In The Moment of Love ( Der Augenblick der Liebe , 2004), Final Flowering ( Angstblüte , 2006), and A Man in Love ( Ein liebender Mann , 2008), in particular, Walser presents characters who are politically...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 3–26.
Published: 01 February 2012
... a book with profound linguistic concerns. A speaker of five languages—English, French, Welsh, Czech, German—the protagonist has the facility of the ideal twentieth-century cosmopolitan. At the same time, however, he is utterly immobilized by recurring episodes of radical aphasia. Dubow and Steadman-Jones...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 47–62.
Published: 01 August 2012
... to an unpredictable future, seems to have been the Wall itself rather than its demolition. From Özdamar's protagonist's charmed crossings of the Wall in the 1970s to Şenocak's view of Berlin as a permanent building site in the 1990s, Littler examines how their writings cut across the old political structure of East...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 1–19.
Published: 01 February 2009
...: by making his protagonist a matricide, does Littell weaken his effectiveness as a historical witness? Susan Rubin Suleiman 2009 When the Perpetrator Becomes a
Reliable Witness of the Holocaust:
On Jonathan Littell’s Les bienveillantes
Susan Rubin Suleiman...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 75–98.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Marco Abel The contemporary German filmmaker Oskar Roehler can be considered a “postromance” director whose films obsessively present so-called single-generation protagonists who often blame their inability to maintain successful relationships on their generational predecessors, the 68ers. When...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 103–123.
Published: 01 February 2021
... the conceptions of life that come into play in the novel (life as career, life as theater, life as gesture) and considers the fate of the protagonist in this light. Seeing the question of inclusion/exclusion as key to Kafka’s novel, the article argues that it exposes the thin line between utopia and dystopia...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 9–35.
Published: 01 August 2023
... as a differential of protagonists’ possible forms of agency and autonomy in a world defined by passivity and heteronomy. The political subtext of Lukács’s early theory of the tragic pursues a double agenda of historical symptomatics (defining tragedy as the genre of a class achieving consciousness of its own...
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 31–55.
Published: 01 February 2025
... are included. The asymmetrical access to sound is transformed in “The Burrow” into a narrative technique for exploring the relationship between the incommensurable positionalities of fictional and authorial worlds. Created as an external eavesdropper on its author’s breathing, the burrowing animal protagonist...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 39–63.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of the
Nazi past.
The complex formal strategies and visceral affective tone of the narra-
tive, which underscore the protagonist’s fractured nature, confront and chal-
lenge us as readers of this post-Holocaust text. Anne Duden’s Judas Sheep
(Judasschaf, 1985) exhibits an unsettling and radical...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 139–169.
Published: 01 August 2008
... walker–archaeologist trope, Nooteboom’s protagonist asserts that the
site is “a realm of the dead and of the disappeared.”12 The refusal to acknowl-
edge through representation prolongs the continued absence of the dead and
forgotten. The Potsdamer Platz was—and still is—the key exemplifi cation...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 115–143.
Published: 01 November 2015
... portrays
the “authentic” Heimat as a mere fantasy of urban culture. The fascination of
the careless protagonist with the Heimat is apparently not based on any famil-
iarity with the actual landscape and its traditional inhabitants. Already on his
way from his apartment to the mountains, Meyer stands...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 65–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... 16 This analysis does not imply that the series producers were seduced by Nazi ideology. But to be competitive in the current world of entertainment, their show capitalizes on the attractiveness of a certain type of protagonist and on the earlier representations of perpetrators and monsters...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 207–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
...,
terror, and narrative, but it is in response to Richter’s paintings that gender
comes to play a larger role. In the story, DeLillo roots Richter’s aesthetic polit-
ical structure in the power differential that emerges through the responses of
his male and female protagonists to Richter’s images...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 1–23.
Published: 01 August 2011
... is whether Wallenstein, commander in chief
of the Austrian emperor’s army, will betray the emperor and side with the
Swedes, thus perhaps ending the brutal war in Sweden’s favor. At the play’s
conclusion, its eponymous protagonist’s death ensures that the war rages on
for another fourteen years...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., I use Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat —or simply Filmkleberin —throughout this article. The approximately fifteen-minute film—at once run-of-the-mill and off the beaten path—depicts two days in the life of a film editor who is also the film’s protagonist. Cempen’s editor is first shown...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 167–184.
Published: 01 August 2013
... a
portrait—but not really a protagonist, unless one were to counterpose history
itself, in its dense layering of connotation, as his antagonist. Müller argued
that in the context of the GDR there could be no protagonists—a sharp
departure from Brechtian dramaturgy:
[Brecht] never understood...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 45–60.
Published: 01 November 2007
... to Italian neorealism of the 1940s. The locales and fi lm sets are
externalizations of the protagonists’ interior worlds. Generally fi lmed using
low shots and backlighting, the landscape of ruined houses refl ects the frag-
mentary remains of the main male character’s identity. Hans Mertens, a sur...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
Published: 01 August 2016
... by Faust: Part Two, and several critics have
identified both similarities and differences between the protagonist of his
novella, the North Frisian Hauke Haien, and Goethe’s archetypal modernizer.7
3. Holander, Theodor Storm, 21.
4. Goethe, Scientific Studies, 147.
5. Luke, “Introduction...
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